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photo: Joan LeFrak |
MalanganFriday, October 24, 7:30 p.m. SITE Santa FeJoin us for a collaborative musical event celebrating the 2008 Biennial, built as a disarticulation and recirculation of the images, words, and spaces of the exhibition.John Kennedy, Molly Sturges and Chris Jonas will compose a piece for multipleensembles placed throughout the installation space, involving members ofSanta Fe New Music and other musicians from the area. The performers willbe linked using various compositional means to explore the realms of ephemerality,collaboration and process.In certain Oceanic traditions, malangan are funerary effigies or monuments tothe dead. Mourners make these assemblages of wood or woven vines anddecorate the surface with carvings of animals, birds, shells, and human figures.The perishable monument is placed over a human grave as a marker, then leftto decompose, and after the human soul is understood to have left the body,the remains are gathered to fertilize gardens. It is through this metaphor of a ceremony to commemorare the dead that theartists hope to share the transformative powers of decay and revitalization—andin the context of the Biennial—accommodating simultaneous resonances ofdeath and rebirth, of loss and renewal, of closure and new beginnings. Co-sponsored by Box Gallery. Venue: SITE Santa Fe, 1606 Paseo de Peralta. Through concerts, commissions, and educational events, Santa Fe New Music promotes understanding of, enthusiasm for, and participation in the music of our time, serving as an advocate for new classical music and its future. SFNM was founded by Artistic Director John Kennedy in 2000. Santa Fe New Music is a 501(c)3 corporation. ####
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